Baseball: Big innings propel Bobcats past Flyers
By Nathaniel Maund | May 10, 2011Again and again, a chain gang of green-clad players emerged from the third-base dugout, engulfing Ohio’s latest run in a sea of high fives and head pats.
Again and again, a chain gang of green-clad players emerged from the third-base dugout, engulfing Ohio’s latest run in a sea of high fives and head pats.
On the tail of a winning weekend against Toledo and Bowling Green, the Ohio softball team is headed into the Mid-American Conference Tournament as the top team in the East Division.
For Bobcats who find they spend more time in the dugout than on the field during games, there is hope.
The Bobcats continued their tradition of winning the Ohio Open this year.
After watching his team lose countless games in the final innings this season, Joe Carbone and his team finally felt the joy of stealing a win from their opponent.
Field hockey coach Neil Macmillan set several goals for the Bobcats this spring. One goal the players can now check off is finishing a triathlon.
There was no liftoff in Toledo this weekend. Emily Wethington grounded more Rockets than NASA.
Throughout the course of a baseball game, coach Joe Carbone has to make many decisions: who to start, who to pinch-hit or who to bring on to pitch with the game on the line.
When Athletes in Action director Mark Heflin approached Bill Hauschild with the idea of a 5K, Hauschild shook off his proposition for something a little bit bigger.
Success came in the form of a cliché for Ohio last night, when, after twice failing to bring Wes O’Neill home from scoring position late in extra innings, the third time was the charm.
As the Bobcats go into their final four games of the season, they have made some defensive changes in hopes of a strong finish.
Coach Joe Carbone routinely describes baseball as a game of ups and downs, and no Mid-American Conference team has been more polarizing in that respect this season than Buffalo.
Sacrifice is sometimes a part of strategy in sports. For the Ohio track and field team, the athletes often have to rest in a smaller meet to hopefully achieve success in bigger meets.
As a freshman, she took the Mid-American Conference by storm.
A committee of Ohio University students, faculty and administrators traveled across the state last week to research features and costs of indoor multipurpose centers and gain knowledge about how to shape one on their own campus.
When it comes to compliance in college athletics, just about every program has been caught with its hand in the metaphorical cookie jar. But some programs, both large and small, have taken the next step and have been caught robbing the Oreo factory.
Coach Joe Carbone has not been happy about the constant deluge of rain in Athens during the past month. Standing in the dugout during Monday’s practice, Carbone looked frustrated over what he said was the rainiest Spring Quarter the Bobcats have dealt with in years.
As Jason Grooms intercepted a pass and sprinted toward the end zone, the Adena High School football field looked more like a scene from his family’s back yard.
Coach Joe Carbone doesn’t need statistics to know the Bobcats could stand to walk fewer batters and get more hits. But if he happened to check the numbers, they would say the same thing.
Six weeks and a few bumps and bruises is all the field hockey team has needed to realize that this season is different than many before it.